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Seven News coverage gives network Thursday win

Seven's late night rolling coverage of UK news helped win their first night of the week. The Project slips behind numbers for 10 News First.

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Late night coverage of news from London pushed The Latest into the Top 20 on Thursday at 302,000 metro viewers (a figure that will probably need to be adjusted). Seven then switched their feed to CNN for ovenright viewers awaiting further updates.

Thursday became the first night of the week won by Seven and the first in which 10 was not eclipsed by ABC.

7:30 drew 456,000 then RBT at 455,000 an extended Home & Away (425,000 / 384,000 from 7pm),  Foreign Correspondent (399,000) and Shaun Micallef’s Brain Eisteddfod (247,000).

Gogglebox was 410,000, leading younger demos, then The Front Bar (351,000), Paramedics (295,000) and Q+A (225,000).

Seven network won Thursday with 28.9% then Nine 27.2%, 10 18.4%, ABC 16.8% and SBS 8.6%.

Seven News was #1 with 839,000 / 837,000 for Seven. The Chase won at 446,000 / 290,000.  In various slots Crime Investigation Australia was 188,000.

Nine News (742,000 / 736,000) was best for Nine then A Current Affair (571,000) and Hot Seat (346,000 / 234,000).  New Amsterdam was 107,000.

In a rare result 10 News First (289,000 / 174,000) outranked The Project, low at 278,000 / 207,000. A Cheap Seats replay was 171,000.

ABC News was 554,000 for ABC. The Drum (154,000) and First on the Ground (103,000) followed.

On SBS it was Inside Aldi (143,000), World’s Most Scenic River Journeys (135,000), SBS World News (125,000 / 116,000)  and Suspect (62,000).

Peppa Pig led multichannels at 122,000.

The Morning Show: 117,000 / 66,000
Today Extra: 92,000 / 56,000
Studio 10:  32,000 /

In Total TV viewers last Thursday were:

Gogglebox: 741,000
Home & Away: 671,000
Thursday Night NRL: 668,000
Shaun Micallef’s Brain Eisteddfod: 364,000

OzTAM Overnights: Thursday 8 September 2022

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  1. I know that the QUeen’s passing was announced at 6:30PM (UK Time), meaning that the time is 1:30AM (WA TIme). I wonder this have an effect on the ratings for the east coast?
    I am wondering how many viewers watched the US open match? Because the match went past 2AM (NY Time).

  2. They had The Latest coverage live into Perth which was great but then when Ange Cox announced they would switch to overseas affiliates coverage Seven Perth messed it up and decided to replay The Latest from the beginning so we had outdated news. In the end I went and found a BBC live stream. Once they announced the Queen had passed Nine then showed the BBC coverage and Seven showed ITV coverage.

    Very surprised that ABC News 24 had no coverage in the lead up as Seven did with the The Latest. Very poor for a 24 hour news channel.

  4. Bit of a miss on Nine’s part surely to not do the same as Seven and run news or extended bulletins from late evening…
    Also, they must have the (rarely used) ability to take the BBC’s news feed in such situations – as I caught exactly this happening on Nine shortly after the monarch’s passing was formally announced (soon after 3am time, east coast) until Today show (and Sunrise) started extended programming, about an hour earlier than usual, i.e. from 4.30am eastern I believe.

      1. I’m surprised neither 7 or 9 managed to get on air for an hour after the announcement, just took international feeds. I would have thought with the advanced notice they would have been ready. ABC was clearly on standby, managing to get on air 15 minutes after the statement was released, though I also wonder why ABC was repeating last night’s episode of the world rather than taking the live BBC feed? They switched to the BBC feed for 10 minutes after they broke the news so they had it available

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